Fair Count is doing all we can to make sure everyone is counted in the census, heard at the polls respected in Georgia's redistricting process.
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New restrictions from the Big Beautiful Bill—signed nearly a year ago with July 4th fanfare—are rippling across the country. The law cuts $187 billion from food stamps over a decade. Since enactment, 3.5 million people have fallen off SNAP rolls.
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Throughout GA's Special Session, community coalitions will hold rallies, prayer gatherings, cultural events, and advocacy actions to protect voting rights and demand fair maps—showing lawmakers that Georgians are watching and expect equal ballot access.
Show up! Be heard!
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Echoes of Plessy run through Callais, where Alito's majority finished off the Voting Rights Act. The Roberts Court is in many respects a neoconfederate court, applying the tactics of the 1880s and 1890s, which rejected a robust vision of equality.
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A federal judge ruled that Mississippi Supreme Court districts violated the Voting Rights Act, ordering a new map and special elections. But the recent Callais SCOTUS ruling threatens that victory—and the promised change may never come.
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Hot, dry conditions have arrived months early across much of the US. Sixty‑one percent of the country is in drought, including the Southeast. The drought, plus tariffs and the Iran war, threatens to drive up food prices and harm rural communities.
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GA – Vice Chair Janice Johnston, who pushed for MAGA-backed changes to voting policies, has resigned from the State Election Board citing "family and personal responsibilities." The GA GOP has nominated Atty. Carolyn Roddy (Marietta) to succeed her.
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Hey Georgia🍑! Its time to vote in PRIMARY RUNOFF — TODAY, Tuesday, June 16!
✅ Make a plan,
✅ Check your registration status,
✅ Find your polling location, and
✅ BRING YOUR ID!
Everything you'll need is on MVP ➡️ mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
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The State Election Board has quietly hired an activist who challenged thousands of Fulton County voter registrations and cheered the FBI's January raid on a county ballot warehouse. He will now serve as the board's official state investigator.
More: bit.ly/4wWfGYF
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Alito's opinion in Callais effectively overturns the 1982 VRA reauthorization. New tests make majority‑minority districts nearly impossible to draw. The majority equates racial voting patterns with partisanship, allowing denial of representation.
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A Commerce Department order banning "noise infusion"—a key privacy technique the Census Bureau has used for decades—could end critical redistricting and policymaking data. Experts say balancing confidentiality w/local statistics may now be impossible.
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Hey Georgia🍑!! Its time to vote in PRIMARY RUNOFF — TOMORROW, Tuesday, June 16
✅ Make a plan,
✅ Check your registration status,
✅ Find your polling location, and
✅ BRING YOUR ID!
Everything you'll need is on MVP ➡️ mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
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The Callais decision gave conservatives a 10-seat gerrymandering advantage, but the impact goes beyond partisanship. With the VRA in tatters, white supremacy politics are ascendant—as Black officeholders are being wiped out with stunning speed.
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"Science has been a testing ground. If you can make people doubt peer-reviewed research, vaccines, and climate data, you can make them doubt anything. An electorate that doubts everything is an electorate that can be told anything."
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🗣️ GA, let your legislators know what's important to you and your community as they redraw districts lines.
We will be joined by our founder, @staceyabrams for Mapping Monday on 6/15.
Make your voice heard before lines are drawn!
RSVP: faircount.co/mapping2026
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Three-quarters of all planned U.S. data centers will be built in the South Midwest. The South alone accounts for nearly half (48%). More than 1,500 new facilities are in development nationwide.
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🗣️ GA, let your legislators know what's important to you and your community as they redraw districts lines.
We will be joined by our founder, @staceyabrams for Mapping Monday on 6/15.
Make your voice heard before lines are drawn!
RSVP: faircount.co/mapping2026
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The SCOTUS gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act using a misleading claim: that Black turnout exceeded white turnout in two recent elections. The DOJ brief counted all adults, not just eligible voters. With eligible voters, only 2012 fits the claim.
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Help a neighbor clean up after a storm and you both earn more Civic Power.
Ignore them and your block stays blighted.
That's the math of collective action.
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🗣️ GA, let your legislators know what's important to you and your community as they redraw districts lines.
We will be joined by our founder, @staceyabrams for Mapping Monday on 6/15.
Make your voice heard before lines are drawn!
RSVP: faircount.co/mapping2026
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